Valerie
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Where in the constitution does it say you sentence yourself to death? Would being a member of the Tea Party or one of those other batty groups also be justification for being on a hit list?
How did the Founders react when Americans took up arms -- not against the Redcoats -- but against their own government? That happened twice. In Shays' Rebellion in 1786, small farmers and shop owners in western Massachusetts, armed with muskets and angry that the courts were foreclosing on their property to satisfy their debts, forcibly closed the courts and threatened to march on Boston.
In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky took up muskets and threatened government officials who were charged with collecting taxes on whiskey.
Madison called Shays' Rebellion treason. The governor of Massachusetts raised an army to crush the rebellion -- an action endorsed by George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and John Marshall.
Eight years later, during the Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington said that permitting citizens to take up arms against the government would bring an "end to our Constitution and laws," and he personally led troops to extinguish the rebellion.
The Founders understood that if our Republic is to survive, the people had to understand that the government was now their government.
Do US Citizens Have the Right to Revolt?
There's no right of revolution in a democracy - CNN
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
George Washington also lead another revolt, I think you may have heard of it, the American Revolution, then again maybe not.
Try reading for comprehension, numbskull.
I know this spoils all your militia fantasies and all, so I hate to break it to you... There's no right of revolution in a democracy!
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